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Is Access To Justice Different for Different Litigants?
Sometimes when a thing starts to fall apart, it does so gradually. No one recognizes the damage for what it is until the thing is in tatters. Or, people recognize that the thing is falling apart and...
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The Future Of Legal Services
The future of legal services cannot be left to lawyers. With all due respect to the profession, it was always designed to serve the upper crust and its corporations, and that mentality is baked into...
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Judge, Heal Thy Courts For Access To Justice
The NYU Law Review has a barn-burning speech from the chief judge of the state’s appellate bench, who sees the judiciary as the leader of the access to justice revolution (pdf). Judge Lippman is a...
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A Legal Self Help Center Everywhere By 2020
A recent guest post on Richard Zorza’s wonderful Access To Justice blog endorsed a strategy for building a legal self help center in every jurisdiction in the country within the next five years. Talk...
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Lean Courts For True Access To Justice
Lack of access to justice is a big deal these days in the legal world. For criminal defendants, the 6th Amendment provides a right to counsel, but it says nothing about the quality of that counsel....
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Special Jurisdiction Courts Are Designed To Deny Access To Justice
We can no longer tolerate the decrepit state of civil justice in the United States. But the system cannot fix itself. It's our system, and we have to take responsibility for fixing it. For the pro se...
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Understanding Access To Justice In The Context Of Laquan McDonald
Laquan McDonald was murdered by a Chicago police officer more than a year ago. Video of the incident, released this week, showed that a blue wall of silence and an official coverup combined to deny...
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Justice Is The Antidote To Chaos
Access to justice commissions are tinkering around the edges of what's needed to restore confidence in our judicial system. The problem is deeper than their mandates. We need a better understanding of...
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Confusing Access To Justice With Judicial Efficiency
Lawyers and judges have made good, solid proposals for improving access to justice, but too often efficiency is mistaken for access. The best answers will come from an army of self-represented...
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Department of Justice Asks Courts to Stop Mugging Their Citizens
Evidence is mounting that we've lost our collective minds. When courts need reminding that poverty is not a criminal offense -- in 2016 -- it's time to reboot the system.Enjoy These Too:Special...
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Jim Sandman At LSC Goes In For Access To Justice
Jim Sandman at the Legal Services Corporation is among the profession's fiercest advocates for civil legal aid. That advocacy -- along with the talent he brings to the job -- makes him one of the...
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When Access To Justice Is Like Winning The Lottery
Despite progress, it’s hard to put a positive spin on this year’s Justice Index, the annual state ranking on access to justice. This data means we cannot rely on the legal profession to solve the...
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Tavis Smiley Hosts Town Hall Meetings On Justice
You know a national issue is serious when Tavis Smiley covers it with a town hall meeting. The cool, calm and collected host of the Tavis Smiley Show on PBS has now turned his attention to our decrepit...
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Prophetic Genius Richard Zorza
Richard Zorza has dedicated his legal career to the needs of self-represented litigants, and for that, he’s one of the Lawyers We Love™. Richard Zorza, accesstojustice.net He led the creation of the...
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Courthouse HOV Lane Reserved For Lawyers
An HOV lane makes a lot of sense on the Interstate, but not in a courthouse dedicated to justice for all. It’s good to encourage carpools, right? Foisting traffic jams on one-passenger cars is good...
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A Civil Gideon For New York City’s Housing Court
The legal profession has worked for decades to create an indigent right to counsel in certain civil cases — what they call a “civil Gideon.” Clarence Earl Gideon, 1961 This would ensure that everyone...
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Laquan McDonald was murdered by a Chicago police officer more than a year ago. Video of the incident, released this week, showed that a blue wall of silence and an official coverup combined to deny...
View ArticleJustice Is The Antidote To Chaos
Access to justice commissions are tinkering around the edges of what's needed to restore confidence in our judicial system. The problem is deeper than their mandates. We need a better understanding of...
View ArticleConfusing Access To Justice With Judicial Efficiency
Lawyers and judges have made good, solid proposals for improving access to justice, but too often efficiency is mistaken for access. The best answers will come from an army of self-represented...
View ArticleDepartment of Justice Asks Courts to Stop Mugging Their Citizens
Evidence is mounting that we've lost our collective minds. When courts need reminding that poverty is not a criminal offense -- in 2016 -- it's time to reboot the system. The post Department of Justice...
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